Just found myself stood next to David Cameron and said nothing

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Now rehearsing conversations in my head. What would you have said.

Apparently he's a Christian as a friend of mine saw him in church once. I'd love to say to him 'you'd better hope you're wrong about God because if there is one you're fucking screwed'

I don't believe myself but if he truly does that might make him feel shit for a few seconds at least 🤷

He once came into my work place and he/his team wanted a publicity photo with the staff just before the general election . I said, “I don’t think so” and wondered off.

Hopefully, I'd be accompanied by my 8yo (she has ASD, with current affairs being one of her areas of special interest. She has very strong views). I would cheerfully point out he was the PM who chose to hold the Brexit referendum, and she was welcome to say 'Hi' and ask him for his view on it... She loves to ask a question (or 10) on a favourite topic and is very cute and innocent, but also unintentionally cutting and blunt when she wants to get to the point or disagrees with something. She will keep digging until she is given sufficient information.
He's a wank stain but wants to maintain a veneer of 'nice guy', so I'd like to think he would have to politely squirm around her questions for a bit before he could extricate himself rather than being rude and blustering off (à la Johnson).

I know the incident you're referring to but that would be a shitty thing to say to someone who's child has died.

Well that backfired, didn't it?

History is written by the victors, you utter loser!

And there we were thinking it was the EU that was fucking us around <hollow laugh>

Love it!!!!

Cheers for Brexit you dickhead.

I don't think you can blame Cameron for Brexit anymore than you can blame Corbyn for anything the Tories have done in the last 4 or 6 years. They campaigned and lost. And if you go along the lines of "It's Cameron's fault for having the referendum in the first place" you have to question your whether you actually believe in democracy.

I was once in the same room as the late MP David Amess, and resisted the violent urge to shout 'CAKE!' at him. I will regret this to the end of my days.

This is perfect

The highlife of holidaying and eating in exactly the same places as you?

This was my mother. She lived in a very pro Brexit area at referendum time and seemed to see it as a point of nationalist pride.

Something along the lines if “you’re a cunt”.

Holding a referendum on a such a complex subject that the majority of the population cannot possibly understand the implications of is monumentally stupid. Bear in mind the average reading age of adults in the UK is 9, how the fuck can you expect most to 'do their own research' on this? I'm fairly literate with an interest in current affairs, and even though I could see some very obvious problems with leaving (enough to not want to touch the idea with a shitty stick), I don't have enough economic knowledge to see all the pitfalls. It isn't undemocratic to not hold a referendum, the democracy part has already happened: we vote in representatives with (supposedly) the specialist knowledge to make these decisions for us, similar to employing qualified surgeons to operate on us or teachers to educate our children. Referendums are great tools for understanding feeling on a specific topic such as an area of spending mid-term, which can then go on to influence policy (ie "Would you support a 1% increase in NI to directly fund X-number of additional nurses and hospital beds?"), but this topic was too complex and making it binding rather than advisory was idiotic.
And let's not forget that he didn't even hold it for honourable reasons of national interest or upholding democracy. He gambled with it purely for his own political gain within his party. He understood remaining was a no-brainer, but is so detached from reality he didn't realise not everyone in the general populace has the same insight of what an unmitigated disaster it would be as him. He saw it as a quick solution to stop a fragmentation in his party and assert his leadership. He forgot how easily people en masse can be made to believe any old crap when marketed emotively (see also: COVID), and arrogantly underestimated how willing proponents of Brexit would be to lie, cheat, and manipulate the public's fears for their own self-interest and to add to their already-large hoard of wealth. He didn't see the propaganda groundwork had already been laid after years of politicians, including him, and their paymaster businessmen deflecting government failings and wealth distribution onto the EU and immigrants (and the poor) in the tabloids so they could merrily carry on their quiet asset stripping - he didn't mix with people in the socio-economic groups who read those publications or sit in tea rooms and hear the propaganda regurgitated and discussed as fact, understanding how ingrained a hatred of the EU had become for a large portion of the population. He was under pressure to hold it, but he was too weak, ignorant, and keen to people-please to stand up to it.
Yes, I blame Cameron.

The question would still have been asked. It just wouldn’t have been Cameron asking it.

Oh, I actually was on the way to work once, and side stepped a crowd on the pavement.

Got to work - for an education based company. Check onto the news at lunchtime. Yup, I side stepped Michael Gove opening a new school, when he was the much hated education minister.

I'd have made small talk about how Aston Villa are doing.

If it was Boris Johnson it would be a citizens arrest for treason and manslaughter, just hope I'd remember all the words of the police caution.

My brain isn't working today and I read that as James Cameron and couldn't understand all the replies for a while 😂